Welcome to Chiropractic!

· Did you hear about us from someone who was very happy with his or her results?
· However you heard about us, you probably want to know what "Chiropractic" is, and what we do at our Beverly Hills office.

What is Chiropractic?
Chiropractic is the philosophy, art and science of all things natural, used to reestablish and maintain a person's innate healing and wellness potential! If you haven't heard it described in such a way yet, it's because you haven't yet met Dr. Barry Lieberman, D.C.

Chiropractic is a discipline which emphasizes the restoration of the inherent potential recuperative power of the body to heal from within, without the use of drugs or surgery. To help you, a chiropractor uses natural methods and lifestyle interventions, while including and integrating the relationship of the spine and nervous system with all functions of your body—a natural, whole body approach.

Chiropractic procedures start with understanding your health history -history taking- to better address your needs, and may also include non-invasive diagnostics, such as palpating the spine, reflex tests, measuring flexibility and balance. With these, a chiropractor can correctly evaluate and make the right corrections that you may need. Your chiropractor can help you choose the best self care and health care choices throughout your life—instead of relyig only on crisis care down the line.

Chiropractors make a correction of the spine with a Chiropractic Adjustment of the spine. This can be done in many different ways, including lightly touching the spine, using a directed motion into the vertebrae (spinal bones), or even tapping on the spine with a little tapping device called an activator.

What is a Subluxation?
One of the primary advantages of seeing a chiropractor is the reduction and elimination of "subluxations." no other type of doctor or practitioner can correct a subluxation of the spine.

A "subluxation" [Sub-lux-ay`-shun] is a physically malfunctioning vertebra [spinal bone] that is associated with nerve irritation.

The subluxation (malfunction) may have far-reaching effects throughout the rest of your body since the nervous system is well known as the master controlling system of the human body—reaching all organs and tissues of your body. Because of the intimate relationship of the nervous system to the spinal vertebrae, the functioning of the spinal vertebrae influences your nervous system.

A subluxation (malfunction) may be the cause of nerve irritation—or it may be secondary—the result of nerve irritation —but even if secondary, because it is present, causing widespread problems and nerve irritation of its own. Either way they must be identified and adjusted to reduce and eliminate their presence and repercussions!

Dr. Lieberman sets himself apart in his profession by being able to optimize wellness, with his ability to identify and correct the commonly concurrent causes of a secondary spinal subluxation: the most common and difficult type of spinal subluxation to correct!

Nerve Interference
When there is at least one subluxation present in your spine, the flow of electricity (energy) through your nerves is altered, irritated, or diminished like a dim light bulb.

Irritation of the nervous system may result in a compensation effect by the body. The body uses this compensation to survive, not to thrive. In this stage the body is not at ease, and is begrudgingly enduring its subluxation malfunction—a state of dysregulation for the sake of survival.

"Dysregulation of such a key system [the nervous system] is associated with disease either linked to a primary [nervous system] dysfunction or as an element in the [disease processes and expression] of complex disorders such as cardiovascular diseases, asthma, and depression."1

In other words, further uncorrected malfunction (subluxation) will unfortunately lead to disease, as stated above. Once the disease process has started and becomes established it is only a matter of time before symptoms start to show—and you would experience them when the malfunction gets to the extent of about 60%. That's a 60% loss of function before you would feel symptoms!

Fortunately, we can find the problem areas of your body, even before there is an established disease process underway. This is one of the reasons we are here in Beverly Hills! Your chiropractor, Dr. Barry Lieberman will examine your spine in our Beverly Hills office, for the signs of subluxation. After your exam, we will create the best health plan for your personal needs, and give you the greatest possibility to improve your health. Contact Us Today!

Getting at the Cause
Instead of Just Treating the Symptoms
In medical practice there are two key parts: the diagnosis (identifying and/or naming the "disease" or syndrome), and the treatment (drugs, surgery, etc.).

Unfortunately, the word "diagnosis" is not really what we all think it is supposed to be. In today's world, a diagnosis is merely putting a name on a symptom, or group of symptoms, even without knowing anything about their causes. More often than not, the causes of any particular diagnosis are not known at all. So in conventional Medicine they may talk of causes in terms of other symptoms!

Imagine reading that the "cause" of apendicitis is an inflamed appendix. Well...no, that's wrong. If you think about it, appendicitis IS an inflamed appendix! Something else has to cause the inflamation. The inflamation is not the cause, it is the result.

Another great example is "arthritis." What causes arthritis? In Medicine, "arthritis" may be blamed on "inflammation," but

"inflammation" is just another symptom which describes the condition of arthritis. That's like saying that arthritis is caused by the symptoms of arthritis! Aside from your chiropractor, nobody else even tries to get to the underlying causes of the symptoms! Instead, the conventional medical focus is on the symptoms themselves and how to block them, or cut them out. In this example, "inflammation" is treated with anti--inflammatory drugs, regardless of the underlying causes.

A Doctor of Chiropractic (D.C.) can diagnose, but if our focus were only on naming the symptoms and not following through and correcting the underlying causes of your concerns, a "diagnosis" could distract us from making a true correction.

If you just want to stop the symptoms without following through and addressing the root causes of your condition, Dr. Lieberman would gladly refer you to a Beverly Hills medical doctor who would just "treat" the symptoms, and you can start your path into crisis care outside of our Beverly Hills office. Simply put: if you don't follow through with your health care, you won't get welll. And if you are not going to get well, why do it in the first place?

If instead, you are interested in addressing the underlying causes of the disease processes that have led to your symptoms, and correcting them, you are on the right track seeking our care! Contact Us Today!

The Target Correction
Getting to the SOURCE of the PROBLEM

What is the target or goal?
Correcting or reducing the causes of your problem are our goals with corrective chiropractic care—resulting in a more permanent, positive change in your body's functioning, and allowing your body to no longer need its warning symptoms. The focus is on correcting the underlying causes of your problem, not your symptoms, since stopping, or blocking your symptoms does nothing to fundamentally help your condition improve in the long run.

If a row of dominos falls, the problem is not that the last one has fallen, but instead, why the first domino became off balance in the first place.

To accomplish correction
Chiropractors make a correction with a Chiropractic Adjustment of the spine.

Your chiropractor will analyze your individual needs at our Beverly Hills office, and develop a plan to help you reach and maintain this goal of correction. Along the way your chiropractor will check to see how your body is progressing, and that the causes of your problem, if not yet completely eliminated, are well on their way to being eliminated.

Symptoms, Relief
Symptoms can seem to disappear before the underlying causes of the problem are corrected. It takes more time to eliminate the causes of a problem than it does for you to feel relief of symptoms, but when we eliminate the causes the results are more authentic. Symptoms are the last stage of a problem, yet the first thing to disappear. Although the symptoms may seem to be gone, it doesn't mean that your care is completed.

Progress
How do I know when I'm past my initial care with my chirorpactor?
There are many methods of measuring your progress. Your symptoms may disappear or return, and therefore are not a safe measuring tool for the correction of your problem.

To consider a malfunctioning, or injured area corrected, researchers say a person's symptoms must be gone and not return for at least 12 months. To ensure achievement of your goal —correction of the causes of your problem— your chiropractor, Dr. Lieberman, will check you regularly at our Beverly Hills office, to see that the many systems of your body and your spine are becoming more integrated, stabilized, balanced, and strong—correcting any diminished energy running through the nerves (energy pathways of the body). Your chiropractor will explain to you how you will be checked and kept up to date on your progress. If you are balanced—free from organ and nerve weaknesses—on several consecutive visits, Dr. Lieberman will reduce the frequency with which you see him.

Short-Term vs. Long-Term Care
Some people think that after their pain or symptoms are gone they can stop care. However, you may realize that what gets you well can keep you well. To keep your vitality at its best, you can decide to follow through with a regular program of care—a maintenance program. The choice is yours. For optimal health, and to ensure that your vitality remains at its peak, we recommend following through with your chiropractic doctor's recommendations for your initial care, and a consistent chiropractic maintenance program to keep your health and vitality at its highest level.

Why Chiropractic works
Chiropractic works because you are a self-healing, self-regulating organism controlled by your nervous system.

Millions of instructions flow from your brain down the spinal cord in and out to every organ and tissue. The signal sent back to the brain confirms if your body is working right. Improper motion or position of the moving bones of the spine, called a "subluxation" can interfere with this vital exchange by irritating nerves and compromising the function of affected organs and tissues. Specific chiropractic spinal adjustments can help improve mind/body communications. Health often returns with improved nervous system control of the body.

Studies show that patient satisfaction with their chiropractor is second to none! Many studies have proven that Chiropractic is much less expensive than medical interventions.

Conclusion
Now we know why chiropractic is not a treatment of pain at all. Instead, your chiropractor gives you a way of moving toward inner health and maintaining vitality. Doctor Lieberman achieves this by balancing your body systems and allowing more optimal functioning of your body; especially your nervous system which controls your body. Your body just won't need a symptom like pain (as a signaling mechanism that something is wrong) when it is functioning at a higher level.

Likewise, aside from pain after injury, symptoms are just the end products of disease processes in the body, due to a lower level of functioning over a long enough period of time.

It is far easier to keep a well body healthy than to repair a body that has been broken down. The choice is yours. Chiropractors report "miracle" cases every day, made possible by the positive influence of the chiropractic adjustment to the nervous system. Nothing compares to a Chiropractic adjustment.

references:
1. Handbook of the Autonomic Nervous System in Health and Disease By Liana Bolis, Julio Licinio, Stefano Govoni

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